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Chinatown Community Think Tank – Engaging Chinese Speaking Communities Part 1
This week we welcome Alvis Choi (aka Alvis Parsley), an artist with a social practice based in Toronto, to the Incluseum blog. Alvis is sharing about the recent project they initiated, Chinatown Community Think Tank, in a two part guest post. The Incluseum invited Alvis to blog because we consider their work to provide a model for thoughtful…
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Teenage Wasteland: Museums and Adolescent Identity Formation
This week, Dylan High will be discussing the positive role museums can play in the life of teens, especially as it relates to youth’s exploration of racial, cultural, or ethnic identities. He highlights 3 fantastic programs taking place at 3 different museums in the U.S. This blogpost is based on research he conducted for his Masters…
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The Whatcom Museum Serves Homeless Adults and Families: Year 2
Last year, we interviewed Mary Jo Maute, Education Coordinator at the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, WA regarding the museum’s participation in Whatcom County’s Project Homeless Connect(PHC). She had indicated her intention to participate again in 2013, so we decided to follow up with her to hear about the Museum’s involvement at this year’s event. PHC…
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Memorializing 9/11, Remembering “Little Syria”
Todd Fine co-founded the Save Washington Street campaign which seeks to preserve sites and stories of Arab American heritage in Lower Manhattan where a “Little Syria” once existed. An exhibit about Little Syria, developed, researched and produced by the Arab American National Museum is currently traveling around the country. Fine contacted the Incluseum this summer…
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The Uni Project: A Portable Reading Room
Way back in February, Leslie Davol blogged for the Center for the Future of Museums about the Uni Project, a portable reading room she founded and runs. This blog post contributed to our thinking about the potential portable, flexible, and adaptable models present for museums interested in connecting to broader segments of their local communities.…
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Reading List: May and June
A selection of “stuff” we enjoyed reading over these last two months. What did you think of these articles, blogposts, etc.? What else did you read? Social Bridging at the MAH – In this post Nina Simon describes social bridging, one of the goals of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Simon defines social bridging…
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Invitation to Participate in an Online Book Club!
This summer, we are excited to be partnering with our friend Mike Murawski from ArtMuseumTeaching.com to host an Online Book Club centered on the recent book Museums and Communities: Curators, Collections, and Collaboration (2013) edited by Viv Golding and Wayne Modest. As Mike explains on his blog: “we will be taking a deep dive into this collection of essays…
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CALTA21: A Model for Bridging Museums and Immigrant English Learners
Engaging with immigrant communities is on many museums’ minds. Over the last few months, we’ve highlighted different programs (e.g. at the Buffalo History Museum and CelebrARTE at the DAM) and frameworks (e.g. Intercultural Dialogue) museum professionals are using both nationally and internationally. Today, we wish to bring attention to CALTA21 (Cultures and Literacies through Art for the…
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Tales of a Museum Studies Grad Student Part 2
Kris Johnson is a Museum Studies graduate student from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). She came across our blog a few months ago and contacted us to see if we’d be interested in sharing her experience on the Incluseum (you can do the same!). Last month, in Tales of a Museum Studies Grad Student Part…
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New Paradigms for Intercultural Work in Museums – or Intercultural Work as a New Paradigm for Museum Practice? Part II
Simona Bodo is an independent researcher and consultant who co-created and edits Patrimonio and Intercultura, a rich on-line resource devoted to the intercultural potential of heritage education projects. This week we are continuing with Part II of her guest blog post (read Part I here) in which Bodo shares some lessons she has learned about how museums…